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A 1970 Plymouth HEMI Superbird and a 1969 Chevrolet ZL1 Camaro both fought their way into the top ten at Barrett-Jackson’s record-breaking $207.6 million 2024 Scottsdale Auction. Fewer than 150 Superbirds were ever built with the HEMI, and the ZL1’s all-aluminum 427 came from Can-Am racing, not the street. Only one of them claimed the top spot. Watch the full countdown to see which one it was.
Chevrolet’s cheapest full-size car could be ordered with the 425-horsepower L72 427, the strongest engine the brand sold in 1966, and only 1,856 of those engines went into the entire big-car line. Muscle Car Campy drives a factory-correct example and then hands the keys to a 454 resto-mod built on the same plain-sedan formula.
Lincoln-Mercury stuffed a 360-hp, 480 lb-ft 429 into a 4,500-pound fastback with hidden headlights and fender skirts, then sold fewer than 8,300 of them across 1969 and 1970. A Rare Cars documentary explains why the Marauder X-100 flopped in showrooms and why it may be the most overlooked big-block bargain from the muscle era.
The 1970 AMC Rebel Machine put 340 horsepower and 430 lb-ft of 390 V8 torque into a mid-size body for ,475, ran a 14.4-second quarter mile, and wore a hood scoop with the tachometer mounted inside it. AMC built 2,326 and never made another. Here is why the smallest automaker in Detroit’s boldest muscle car vanished after one year.
Ford squeezed 662 horsepower from a supercharged V8 into the last Mustang built with a solid rear axle, a combination that made the 2013 Shelby GT500 both wildly fast and genuinely difficult to drive. A decade later, owners are still talking about the sound, the manual gearbox, and just how much respect this car demands. Here’s why the 2013-2014 GT500 remains one of the most talked-about modern Shelbys.
Somewhere out there is a 1970 Road Runner that looks like a steal – low price, “runs when parked,” a seller who swears it just needs a battery and a little elbow grease. What that ad rarely mentions is what four or five decades of sitting actually does to a Mopar: a seized engine, a carburetor gummed solid, brake cylinders welded shut with rust, and a frame that may have taken a hit long before it ever went into storage. One shop’s rebuild of a Road Runner wrecked back in 1977 and parked ever since shows exactly what that repair bill looks like in real time – and what to check before you fall for the same “it just needs a little work” pitch.
A 425-horsepower Hemi Super Bee went wheel to wheel with a Corvette packing a secretly underrated L88 427, and somehow came out ahead at the stripe. The Corvette turned the higher trap speed. The Dodge turned the better reaction time. This is how a factory-legal Mopar built to the edge of its rulebook nearly took down one of GM’s rarest big-blocks.
A stranger bought this 1965 Plymouth Barracuda without ever seeing it, betting on a car that had sat untouched for roughly two decades. It’s the same model that beat the Mustang to dealerships by sixteen days and wore the largest single piece of glass ever installed on a production car. Here’s the real story behind Plymouth’s original pony car, and what it actually takes to wake one back up.
A YouTuber dropped a supercharged Hellcat V8 into his 1968 Dodge Charger chasing 1,500 horsepower, and the swap didn’t go quietly — the torque twisted the chassis off the line and blew the supercharger’s intake apart before the video even wrapped. Here’s the story behind ‘Tater,’ one of the wilder modern Mopar engine swaps making the rounds this year.
Nate Rider’s built 1968 Mustang Fastback isn’t a garage-queen survivor — it’s a working argument for why a classic still beats anything on a modern lot, backed by a supercharger, carbon fiber trim, and a serious tuning shop. The comments underneath it read like confessions from owners who agree completely. Watch to see the build, and the reasons, for yourself.
A dust-covered 1963 Corvette Sting Ray came out of a barn on a detailing channel — and viewers immediately recognized it as one of the rarest Corvettes ever built. Its split rear window lasted exactly one model year before GM killed it, and today it drives six-figure auction prices. But it was the story behind the car’s owner, surfaced entirely in the comments, that turned 587,000 views into something closer to a tribute.
A humble 300-horsepower rating made Oldsmobile’s 1972 442 W-30 look like it had lost the muscle car war. Then it squared off against a genuine L88 Corvette — one of only 116 ever built — in a quarter-mile grudge match that exposes exactly how misleading that number really was. Here’s the story behind two of the era’s most misunderstood engines.